“I am writing this letter as a free mink. It is still hard to believe I no longer live in a cage. Few days ago, on an early morning, the humans came. It was earlier than usual, and these humans were different. They were dressed in black and wearing masks. We paid them little attention. Usually they give us food and water. But not these humans. They started opening the cages and setting us free. I could not believe my eyes. There was great excitement among my brothers and sisters as well.

When one of the humans opened my cage I rushed out without hesitation. I ran as fast as I could and never looked back. I wish I had stopped and thanked that human. He saved me from pain, stress and torture. He saved my life for if it was not her I would have either gone mad or died of a terrible infection or disease.

In the nature we are free, we run and swim and life feels great. But living in a tiny cage was very hard and depressing. Many of my brothers and sisters went insane. They ran in circles for hours, biting the metal bars of the cages or fighting each other. Many went as mad as hurting themselves. It was very sad. I saw my friends biting their paws and tails to the bone. They could not control themselves anymore. When someone got sick others also got sick. We are not used to living together in such small and crowded places and many of us died of infections and diseases.Thank you for setting me free from this awful prison. I cannot describe how happy I felt when I saw the sun for the first time in my life. The green grass under my paws feels much nicer than the dirty, cold metal bars of the cage floor. I can run freely and I can rest when I get tired. Then I can run some more or take a nap in a burrow that I discovered the other day.

I hope that many other humans will have the courage to set free all my brothers and sisters who are locked up in such horrible places. Because no one deserves a life full of pain and suffering. With all my heart I thank you.”

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very pawsome letter,
little mink.
more people care about you
than you think.
we work hard
almost
every day.
so that the concept
of fur will
go far away.
and minks can
be minks.
live safe lives
and play

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very pawsome letter,
little mink.
more people care about you
than you think.
we work hard
almost
every day.
so that the concept
of fur will
go fa away.
and minks can
be minks.
live safe lives
and play 🙂

I really have a problem with this trend of setting minks free. Perhaps someone should start a mink sanctuary where they can be taken care of without posing any harm to wildlife?? These little creatures (akin to weasels and ferrets) are quite the killing machines and will cause problems with native animal populations. (And cats, too!) Totally irresponsible.

I have to disagree. Not irresponsible when you consider the alternative. Minks do very well in the wild (they are wild animals) and follow their own natural, biological urges. What is irresponsible is farming them and then skinning and anally electrocuting them for frivolity. Well, any reason, frivolous or not, is irresponsible. These “farmers” are evil barbarians.

Amen! Stacey, these beautiful little animals deserve to be free and run free in the wild where they were meant to be not crammed up in a cage waiting to be skinned alive or tortured to death which is what happens to those who don’t get set free. I say God bless the beautiful animal lovers who helped to set these babies free and I wish more of us animal lovers will grow a spine and do the same things for the other animals who are suffering at the hands of these DEMONS called human beings.

The domestic monks cannot survive in the wild. Setting them free is like killing them! They need to go to a sanctuary where they are not caged, but fenced into a proper set up to enjoy the rest of their after being spaded and neutered like I did with a couple of mink rescued off of a horrible abusive farm. I also made sure to give them their distemper and rabies vaccines. Do it right or don’t do it at all!!!

And what baffles me by all these objections is that they certainly die in horrific manners in their current environment and people are protesting their release. Humans do not do well in the wild on their own with only their bodies, yet if in the same position, wouldn’t you want to give them freedom?

Yes, it is kinda puzzling how people can be anal about the legistics of a glory release opposed to the alternative of having a minks skin tore off. Sure it would be nice for the minks to go to a sanctuary, however sometimes a release is the next best thing. Again, objective is to make the mink farmer miserable to get him out of business. Do whatever you can to take out that satanic ass.

Great thing these rescuers have done. Brought some pride back to humans. Setting these beautiful creatures free is the right thing to do. Now someone needs to put a bullet in the leg of the people who run these farms. Notice how abortion clinics are less prevalent since action was takin. Same courage should be taken on animal offenders. Cheers to all the good people who love minks!!

what about all of the endangered animals they kill? Does anyone thing about the risk they pose as invasive species? Yes, i understand that the industry of rasing animals for coats sucks but you can’t just go and let them all go into a place the don’t naturally exist…For each mink you are releasing, you are killing dozens if not hundreds of other creatures. Many of them endangered. So thank you to all of those who are carelessly releasing mink to kill our endangered species and pose a direct threat to our ecosystems.

Certainly a very nice-looking mink. BUT: To release large numbers of minks (or other predators) at one point in the landscape will result in catastrophe for (a) the local wildlife (as the minks with their hunger will simply kill and eat whatever they can find and manage to overwhelm) and (b) the minks themselves (as they are by far too many to survive on the wild food available in the area).
I am certainly no friend of fur farms (and in Finland, where I live, there are many), but I do recommend a different course of action: in Finland there have been a few fur farms which have switched to the breeding of rabbits with good fur; rabbits manage to live in groups (thus, no need to keep them in single cages – one can even provide some area to run free for a while) and are anyway adapted to spending long times in very narrow burrows; they live on a vegetarian diet (anyway no suffering imposed on their food – while minks live on, e.g., herring), which also means that their excreta are very much less of an environmental problem compared to those of minks and foxes; after taking the fur one can also eat them (i.e. more use to be had per suffering individual).
I am no friend even of rabbit farms, but if one wants to at least reduce the suffering resulting from the production of fur then it may be a more realistic course to recommend to the public that they should ask for rabbit fur instead of fur of minks, foxes, or similar predators.